I also need to reset the mobile devices. I bought my stream used and 4 were used up. I wasn't concerned when it said 6 out of 50, but now it says 6 of 12 and with 4 family members with phones and iPads I may well reach the limit.

I also need to reset the mobile devices. I bought my stream used and 4 were used up. I wasn't concerned when it said 6 out of 50, but now it says 6 of 12 and with 4 family members with phones and iPads I may well reach the limit.

Same Here. There used to be an option to release all clients in the previous release when you went into full system information and click on the clients tab... However that seems to have been removed with this release.

Same Here. There used to be an option to release all clients in the previous release when you went into full system information and click on the clients tab... However that seems to have been removed with this release.

They need to provide a means to do a global release.

You can release all clients as follows. With a browser use this URL (obviously replace <StreamIP> with the Stream IP address):
http://<StreamIP>:49152/sysinfo
Click on "Service" button then use the "reset" button in front of "Streaming Client List" text.

You can release all clients as follows. With a browser use this URL (obviously replace <StreamIP> with the Stream IP address):
http://<StreamIP>:49152/sysinfo
Click on "Service" button then use the "reset" button in front of "Streaming Client List" text.

I don't see that feature in the OOH Streaming release. Clicking on the service button only shows a Call Now button. If you click on the Client button you don't see any options like you did with the previous release.

I don't see that feature in the OOH Streaming release. Clicking on the service button only shows a Call Now button. If you click on the Client button you don't see any options like you did with the previous release.

This is what I see:

EDIT: Note that I haven't actually tried the reset button so don't know if it actually works or not...

EDIT: Note that I haven't actually tried the reset button so don't know if it actually works or not...

That's interesting... I don't see that when I click on Service - After Streaming Clients I have Last TCD Call State, then Next Service Call and the a button to Force Service Call. According to the App I am running 19.1.3b-01-6. And I have forced a couple of Service Calls since the upgrade to see if that enabled the other screen. I even deactivated and re-activated through the TiVo website but that didn't release the unused clients either.

That's interesting... I don't see that when I click on Service - After Streaming Clients I have Last TCD Call State, then Next Service Call and the a button to Force Service Call. According to the App I am running 19.1.3b-01-6. And I have forced a couple of Service Calls since the upgrade to see if that enabled the other screen. I even deactivated and re-activated through the TiVo website but that didn't release the unused clients either.

You can release all clients as follows. With a browser use this URL (obviously replace <StreamIP> with the Stream IP address):
http://<StreamIP>:49152/sysinfo
Click on "Service" button then use the "reset" button in front of "Streaming Client List" text.

The reset button does nothing for me. Am I doing something incorrectly?

The reset button does nothing for me. Am I doing something incorrectly?

As I mentioned, I never actually tried it, so apparently it doesn't do what one expects. In Javascript there are other hidden buttons and settings which if changed also don't affect anything so looks like the web pages are just for information and may have to be put in a special mode to actually effect any changes.

I also show 6/12 clients used and as far as I know only my iPad and iPhone are using the streaming. If any other family members are using it that'd just be 2 more iPhones... so 4... I can't reset. When I go to the IP page clients just shows a -.

Not a big deal at this point as I only have 4 possible clients, but could be a bigger issue in the future.

That page is only populated when you are actively streaming/downloading to the iOS App.

Thanks for the heads up on that. I have stuff downloading on my iPad and sure enough, I see it and my iPhone listed. No place to delete/reset all clients, but the ability to release the ones I see.

I did set up the other 2 iPhones to use OOH streaming and my client usage still sits at 6/12. I have a feeling it may be based on how many devices have the TiVo app installed and we just recently got rid of 2 iPads... which would make it to our 6/12.

I guess I'll really start worrying if/when we get near that 12 mark... and that's not happening any time soon

As I mentioned, I never actually tried it, so apparently it doesn't do what one expects. In Javascript there are other hidden buttons and settings which if changed also don't affect anything so looks like the web pages are just for information and may have to be put in a special mode to actually effect any changes.

Since you have enabled OOS, how about getting it to work with H.264 content? OOS is TOTALLY useless unless you Einsteins can figure a way to get it to work with H.264.

While I understand your frustration you're in a very unique situation. The vast majority of cable companies in the US are either not using H.264 at all or only for a handful of channels, so this doesn't affect most people the way it does you.

That being said I'm surprised this still hasn't been fixed. I hope it's not a hardware limitation.

Just got Stream OOH update. Was at 12/50 mobile clients before update (Actual number of devices is 6).

After update, when I connected, it told me I was at my limit (new limit=12) and asked if I wanted to reset the client list. It said it could be done every 30 days and clients would automatically reconnect without losing service.

We'll see how that works in practice when my daughter gets home as she is the heaviest user of the app in our household.

I can however see the Out-Of-Home menu in the Full System Information menu on the iOS, but i'm not seeing the option to enable Out of Home Streaming in the iOS app, even after making a service call and restarting the device.

Any ideas?

Update>
I checked, and my TiVo software is not up to date. I restarted one and it looks like it's installing an update.

I got the new Stream update the other day. 19.1.3b-01-6 I ran the Out of Home setup with no problem. The out of home checkmark was there.
Is there supposed to be Live streaming of TV with this update? The only streaming I get is when I watch a recorded show within my home network. If I try to watch a Live show it records it and then plays it back. If I am away from home, it does nothing on LTE for Live or recorded shows. (streaming over cellular not supported) I'm not exactly sure what this update is supposed to do. I have rebooted my Stream and Premiere many times.
Thanks for your input.

So far, for all of us that have done that comparison, the Sling wins hands down in terms of video quality.

Yep. I'm testing right now, and the Sling's quality is far better than the Stream.

The Stream needs a better variable bit encoding algorithm. It seems like it just analyzes your network, and then drops the quality down two notches, and then streams at that constant bitrate. It's not good at all.

Furthermore, if you try to Download, you have to stay in the app to make it continue to download. And restart it after it stops in 5 minutes.

Why is the Sling better? Is it encoding the video with a different codec than the a Stream??

I really like the responsiveness of how the Stream works natively with the TiVos I have. But unfortunately, the video quality and download issues are kind of a deal breaker at this point.

Sling is encoding to H.264 as well, but they have had years to perfect adaptive encoding. I think the TiVo Stream adaptive encoding is very simplistic and is not really adapting quickly on the fly to available bandwidth. I think part of the reason Sling can do a better job is it is also doing some video buffering so that what we are getting is a few seconds delayed and it has time to adjust real time video encoding parameters before we see it.

I'd be happy with the Stream if/once they fix OOH downloads so they don't pause every 5 minutes. Icing on the cake would be to also let downloads continue while TiVo App runs in background mode.

Sling is encoding to H.264 as well, but they have had years to perfect adaptive encoding. I think the TiVo Stream adaptive encoding is very simplistic and is not really adapting quickly on the fly to available bandwidth. I think part of the reason Sling can do a better job is it is also doing some video buffering so that what we are getting is a few seconds delayed and it has time to adjust real time video encoding parameters before we see it.

I'd be happy with the Stream if/once they fix OOH downloads so they don't pause every 5 minutes. Icing on the cake would be to also let downloads continue while TiVo App runs in background mode.